Opinion: Will Obama Deep-Six Immigration Reform?

Political Diary editor Jason Riley on Senate negotiations over immigration reform and President Obama's leaked plan.

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... Washington by accident this raises the question that many of us ... I continue to wonder about that that was suppressed really Warner result ... I see one another Kargil to be down Republicans so that he can get political advantage in the next election ... welcome to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... Senator John McCain on Meet the Press Sunday raised the prospect ... that the prison's lead to immigration reform plan ... may have been meant to deep six the process political diary editor Jason Riley ... also the author of wet and and is here ... to untangle this mess By Jason are tied ... to your sources think that this week was intentional ... whoa there ... that ... they're befuddle was no no one knows for sure at least not yet maybe you know these these things do tend to ... to come out after a while but ... but um it's scary it's it's very curious that that this that stay the Union Mary ... of Obama Stop Capri conciliatory tone one immigration reform as opposed to say we get on guns which is really throwing red meat in the days ... on immigration reform you it's much more gracious he said you know things are moving along ... this week would seem to undermine that process aam ... which suggests that it might have been accidental and what it does is is undermine a process that's taking place in the Senate they're working on reform ... bipartisan process ... and then the sleek comes out and you see the president's own plane when it would do ... in wheeling ships ... black in the open plan that will be a very hard for you to picture your are not that they're working on a plan right um how how different are these two approaches to listen and what the White House is doing well ... Obama would be happy with ... a bill that basically had an amnesty for existing illegal immigrants and more border security ... and he'd be fine with that ... Republicans want a guest worker program but also NOK or were ... they well what they won a deal on the amnesty is a little different for the present wants to the president ... wants to put the legal immigrants on a much faster path to citizenship ... the Republican plan would be a much slower path ... and what sort of say ... people that are doing it the right way this backlog we have they would come first when it comes to getting physicians and ... for people who came to the country illegally so there is a difference there on on the amnesty but the big omission in the Obama plan that we saw on that week ... was the absence of any guest worker program ... and we know the president's Labor supporters don't want one ... in the negotiating with the Chamber of Commerce to try and kill any idea ... of a guest worker program ... or one that they wouldn't control aam entirely ... so aam affiliate that omission is very conspicuous is still insisting is the real action here are happening in the Senate between this game eight centers ... or isn't really the AFL CIO ... negotiating ... all that's another question we don't know on those talks are happening behind closed doors ... aam but what we don't know is whether ... labor is is is speaking on behalf of the administration and they're in their negotiations with the chamber ... and based on this week ... they are because this does the best plan that the White House outlined ... labor would have no problem with that it doesn't have an answer from the center marker Rubio said this White House proposal would be dead on arrival if it if it landed in Congress ... why would the president ... I e who want to deep six East negotiate loans when he has so much of the ... Hispanic vote low Rubio knows better than anyone that the presence certainly capable of undermining something already underway in the Senate he did this before the election with the dream Act ... Rubio was working on the Senate plan he came to an executive order ... of that so overwhelmed that plan and and basically made it to RAH one so the present is capable of doing this if he wants to and that's the whole debate here ... how serious is the present about getting immigration reform ... or does he want the issue to take into ... the midterm elections in twenty four or adjacent to be really cynical about it because the White House just need to be in the center ... of everything that goes on ... while I can't let this and actually come to a bipartisan compromise they think they could be that it could be that but I you know ... what that that if you look at what the presence of the stay the Union ... and the new look at the sleek somethings something's not right there either the present of two minds on what he wants to do here ... or ... possibly was not improve with the JCU have sources through our Washington on immigration even reporting on this for years ... D in your judgment do you think that this gang in a really has a chance ... of putting forward a workable compromise or not to search this now that serves us for that ... I'd I think they do Obama slapped has been on him to do something on this issue ... of Republicans want more inclusion in their party and the look in the Hispanic voters so both sides have some skin in this game ... and and that's the way you get you get bipartisan compromise that way and so ... the stars are aligned for this to happen I think we need leadership from the White House but it could happen we need some leadership from the White House imagine as the Liberals diary editor Jason Riley the opposite of what the men ... thank you so ... you for being with us